This week on The Bugcast: we’re live in Studio E, Caroline suffers road rage, and a birthday, and we play some amazing Creative Commons and independent music!

Songs played

• Monkeyland – Oscar Goldman – from Wigan, UK – source
  
• Lea Anderson – Love Yah! – from New York, NY – source
  
• Midnight Préfou – Life Goes By – from France – source
  
• Liv Margaret – Oasis – from Nashville, TN – source
  
• George Capon – Underground – from Manchester, UK – source
  
• Jan y Su Son Latino – Que Viva La Salsa – from Santo Tomas, Minorca – source
  
• Trundicho – I Say No – from Karlsruhe, Germany – source
  
• The Spin Wires – Time Is A Fire – from Buffalo, NY – source
  

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

Studio E is live!<br />
Caroline’s run-in on the A1(M)<br />
Caroline’s milestone birthday<br />
<a href="https://ysp.org.uk/">Yorkshire Sculpture Park</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower_Reservoir">Ladybower Reservoir</a>

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</strong>

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next live show will be episode 579 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 30 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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Series 6 Episode 4 – We welcome Mike Saunders back to the show, Mike gives us a rundown of some of the new features in Libreoffice 6.3, we also speak about the fate of Linux Journal, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne introduces us to Season 6 Episode 4 of the Binary Times. He’s in a better mood as Bristol is cooler and cloudier, Mark’s feeling great in a lightly raining, cloudy Kilkishen, and The Mike Saunders joins us once again from a sunny, beer garden time, Southern Bavaria.
03:24 The guys discuss the latest version of LibreOffice, that being LibreOffice 6.3. The latest version can be installed as a snap using the command sudo snap install libreoffice in Linux distributions with snap support. There is a video available on YouTube detailing the really cool enhancements that have arrived with LibreOffice 6.3.
31:32 The guys transition nicely into a discussion around the demise of the Linux Journal and print media in general. The good news is Linux Format and Linux Magazine are still available! Mike thinks someone may try to crowdfund another Linux Magazine and he’d be willing to provide any advice needed. Maker magazines seem to be doing well, all the same. Mike reminisces fondly about an interview with Lennart Poettering and the guys discuss the road rage level of anger that can be directed at people and organizations by the community.
53:14 Under the Hood
– Mark’s under the hood is inxi -W [location]. More can be found out about the very versatile inxi on its man page.
– Wayne’s under the hood is not really an under the hood but more what he’s been doing, and that’s installing /e/ on the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini. The experience is far sweeter than his previous attempt with a Samsung Galaxy S3 and Mike thinks it might be due to more memory in the Galaxy S4.
Wayne goes on to clarify a mistake that was made in our last episode and that is the Blender Game Engine has been removed from Blender.
Wayne wraps up to say that metronomes are distracting when learning to play an instrument, bring on the drum beat with drumkits! He mentions two in particular, Drum bit and Virtual Drum Machine
Mike’s under the hood is the observation that no application is complete without a weather function.

53:56 German saying for the show: “Eine App ist nicht vollständig, bis sie einen Wetterbericht erstellen kann” – Or An app isn’t complete until it can produce a weather report!
We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!

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This week on The Bugcast: we’re gearing up for a move into Studio E, we take part in our first Pride march, and we play some amazing Creative Commons and independent music!

Songs played

• Square A Saw – No Goodbyes – from Eschweiler, Germany – source
  
• LadyLau – Rainbow Thoughts – from Schiedam, Netherlands – source
  
• Adem Dalipi – Didn’t Wanna Love You – from Rockford, IL – courtesey of NoVo Management and Publicity
• Lewis – Handmedown Love – from Dallas, TX – source
  
• Beliano Ad – Toca – from Luanda, Angola – source
  
• Granny Smith – Yet Do Not So – from Russia – source
  
• Carter Vail – Pontiac – from Miami, FL – source
  
• Niki J Crawford – Countosh – from Los Angeles, CA – source
  

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

<a href="https://www.doncasterpride.co.uk/">Doncaster Pride</a>

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</strong>

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next live show will be episode 578 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 23 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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This week on The Bugcast: the power goes out across England, a new sci-fi podcast has been launched, Yannick “does a Dave”, and we play some amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• Josh Woodward – Vanishing Note – from Ann Arbor, MI – source
  
• Aquarius Blue – What I’m Thinking – from MA – source
  
• Rapid Pain Relief – Marry Me, Girl – from Pittsburg, PA – source
  
• Color Out – Always Leaving – from Chicago, IL – source
  
• Rasmus Söderberg – Run Like Fire – from Rimbo, Sweden – source
  
• The DŁX – Don’t Wanna Go – from Hattiesburg, MS – source
  
• Allie Farris – Sapphira Swoons – from Nashville, TN – source
  
• Cwtch – One Moment – from Cardiff, Wales and Australia – source
  

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-kent-49198575">UK power outage</a><br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey Hot</a> – an unofficial Star Trek fan podcast from the Other Side Podcast Network<br />
<a href="https://thebugcast.org/2015/10/11/the-bugcast-378-missing-in-action/">the bugcast 378 – Missing in action</a>

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</strong>

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next live show will be episode 577 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 16 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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Series 6 Episode 3 – Mark is back from the maker fair in Dublin having met up with many contemporaries and buzzed up with weekend, he also speaks about backup programs, pi-hole issues, Blender gets an update, Wayne speaks more about phones, upgrades his infrastructure, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne’s barely able to welcome us to Episode 3 of Season 6 after an hour of faffing about in the searing heat of Bristol. Mark tries to say the right things and tell us it’s raining in Kilkishen.

03:00 Mark tells us all about Dublin Maker Fair. He tells us he met some of the people from Dublin Linux Group and chatted with Conor from Linux Lads. There were physics experiments galore and a home made 3D printer to be seen. The Board Game Designers of Ireland were there too, and Mark received a game from one of the developers there. The game is great! Mark mentions that representatives of Techspace, CoderDojo and Raspberry Pi were there. Crafty Nathan Creations, a financial wizard by day, creator of cool costumes in his spare time, was showing off his Fallout and Metro creations. Mark goes on to tell us that students were on site who were building Ireland’s first satellite, EIRSAT-1. Tog, the maker / hacker space in Dublin, was there also, providing good information on de-googling your life, with more information on that being found at Privacytools.io, myshadow.org, and a beginner friendly workshop on digital self defence near you can be found at cryptoparty.in. Mark felt right at home with everything going on and really enjoyed the day. He’d recommend it.

Mark goes on to tell us that he provided a Gigabyte Brix for his parents’ home and installed Linux Mint 19.2 on it. This leads the lads on to talk about Timeshift, a system backup utility used in Linux Mint. Mark tells us that there’s quite a good article on Linux Magazine about Timeshift also. Wayne asks about Déjà Dup and the guys breifly discuss the merits of various back up strategies.

Mark goes on to discuss some adventures he has had with pihole, and how he couldn’t get pihole -r to work as he thought it should work. Wayne goes on to tell us some pi-hole issues he helped Paul with, DNS and DHCP issues. Wayne thanks Paul for the memory he sent on.

Mark rounds out his what has he been doing for the last fortnight section with a little chat about Blender and its latest release 2.80. Mark tells us about some of the uses Blender has been put to, including Yo Frankie!, a game show-casing the Blender Game Engine, Big Buck Bunny, an animated movie in which Frankie appears, Elephant’s Dream, the first movie created with Blender, Sintel, a brilliant bit of animation and great story to boot, as well as Tears of Steel and Agent 327. Mark goes on to tell us the huge news that Ubisoft is joining the Blender Development Fund. Mark tells us about his own recent experience with Blender 2.80, tells us of its differences, and that Blender is an API breaking releases. Mark recommends using the snap or steam version to stay current.

33:34 Wayne tells us what he’s been at, and he begins by announcing that he’s ditched Ubuntu Touch and is back on Lineage OS with f-droid. Wayne feels that the cleanliness of Lineage and not having to think about his phone and it just being his daily driver makes his life easier. Mark asks Wayne about /e/. Wayne gives us his reasons as to why he’s sticking with Lineage.

This brings the conversation around to old hardware and 32 bit computers. 32 bit Distributions mentioned are Slackware, antiX Linux, MX linux and Debian. Wayne questions the usability of Debian day to day. Mark suggests Linux Mint Debian Edition.

50:29 Wayne tells us that he’s completely replaced his old routing setup with a pfsense box. He tells us he’s using pfBlockerNG to block unwanted sites. He’s quite happy with his new set up.

Mark tells us that his Turros Mox has finally arrived and his internet connection is soon to be upgraded. Mark is starting to suspect his phones are having an effect on his network performance.

1:00:05 Under the Hood – Wayne talks about Frank Karlitschek’s self hosting talk and in particular the file link add on for thunderbird. It is an extension which makes it easy to send large attachments with Thunderbird.

Wayne also mentions Dave’s suggestion of vrms to check your system for non-free software.

Mark’s under the hood is the command apt-cache show [application]. This command gives you all the details of the application in question in the repository, including dependancies.

1:05:00 Irish saying of the audiocast is “Táim i dtrioblóid”, or I’m in trouble, a reflection of the difficulties the guys had in getting this show together.

We hope you enjoy this audiocast as much as we did making it, please do get in touch and let us know what you think, we do love to get your feedback. Mark recommends checking out the new logos on Patreon.

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This week on The Bugcast: Dave celebrates International Beer Day on his own, and he reviews Podcrawl Glasgow from last weekend, and we play some amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• Bellevue – Paper Town – from Paris, France – source
  
• Scott Jacobs – Send A Little Bit – from Nanaimo, BC – source
  
• Carter Vail – Andrew – from Miami, FL – source
  
• Josh Woodward – Shade – from Ann Arbor, MI – source
  
• Cwtch – Currawong Rise – from Cardiff, Wales and Australia – source
  
• The Dada Weatherman – M.O. – from Paris, France – source
  
• Rivers and Leafs – Kissing Streams – from Sweden – source
  
• Banana Cream – Whenever Is The Right Time – from Commerce, CA – source
  

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

Very many thanks to Oz for hosting last week’s show<br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beer_Day">International Beer Day</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong">Currawong</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong_Beach">Currawong Beach</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong_Bush_Park">Currawong Bush Park</a><br />
Podcrawl Glasgow review

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</strong>

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next live show will be episode 576 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 9 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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This week on The Bugcast: oztunan does a great job hosting his first ever podcast this week, featuring a great mix of Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• GarnaVutka – Upbeat Indie Rock (Short version 2) – from Ukraine – source
  
• Tinyfolk – Little Bugs – from Chicago, IL – source
  
• Grace Kelly – Ready Set Stay – from New York City, NY – source
  
• Mike Phirman – Sketchy Dudes – from San Luis Obispo, CA – source
  
• BIT – O Suzanne – from Brooklyn, NY – source
  
• Ramova – Double G – from Chicago, IL – source
  
• The Spin Wires – Hipster Girls – from Buffalo, NY – source
  
• Dazie Mae – The Goodbye Song – from Paris, France – source
  

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Background: <a href="https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/477883/">Dawn Chorus On the Bank of the Little Missouri River</a>

Topics

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</strong>

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next live show will be episode 575 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 2 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

<strong>oztunan for hosting the show this week!</strong><br />
Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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Hey everyone! After an extended break I’m back! After a mammoth amount of content for NaPodPoMo I ended up having a break. However, the break kept getting larger.

In Episode 5, I talk about the 44 days until I return to the Great North Run and how training is going. I discuss Bowel Cancer UK who I’m running in support of. After seeing the International Space Station fly over last night, I muse on lofty goals and how humans love chasing them.

If you’re financially able to and would like to support me cross the finish line of fundraising you can find out more at my JustGiving Fundraising page.

It’s great to be back and if you want to get in touch, drop me a note to jonathan at twineradio.co.uk or find me on Twitter @twineradio.

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